The attempted development of submersible seaplanes, and information about designers. In the 1960s, Charles Roe Tuttle and Donald Reid were two developers, one building on the work of Boris Petrovich Ushakov from 1934.
The San Diego based Ryan Corporation started in 1922 as an air service and grew to become a training school, passenger airline, and aircraft manufacturer. In 1927 they built the famous "Spirit of St. Louis" for Charles Lindbergh. Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical remains in business today.
1100 digital image files that were scanned and donated by the Tailhook Association. They show the history of Naval Aviation, but many are from NAS North Island.
This is a collection of movie and television screenplays, which were in the possession of Frank Tallman, a stunt pilot who worked in Hollywood during the 1960s and 1970s, and miscellaneous articles and brochures. In 1961, Tallman formed Tallmantz Aviation with Hollywood stunt pilot Paul Mantz, based at Orange County Airport (now John Wayne Airport) in Southern California.
The Ryan Firebee began as a series of target drones or unmanned aerial vehicles developed by the Ryan Aeronautical Company, beginning in 1951 (later Teledyne Ryan). It was one of the first jet-propelled drones, and one of the most successful and widely used target drones ever built, generally referred to as the Firebee I. The collection is housed in two boxes and contains photographs and articles about the Teledyne Ryan Firebee.
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